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Mark Story: 'I've got to start playing.' Beau Allen's transfer driven by urgency, father says.

If his father is correct, quarterback Beau Allen’s unexpected decision last week to transfer from the Kentucky football program may have taken root during UK’s 31-17 drubbing at Mississippi State last Oct 30. Before Mike Leach left the head coaching job at Washington State for the same position at MSU, he and his staff put a full-court recruiting press on Allen. So in Starkville last season, Allen was greeted by many of the support-staff members who had ardently wooed him for Washington State.